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10-11-2019, 01:41 PM
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Moderasaurus Rex
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Re: Doesn’t Matter Who Wins the K Race; We’re All the Same
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Originally Posted by sebastian_dangerfield
Is Barr a hack? Of course. Is he misrepresenting the findings of Mueller, a man he’s known and worked with for 30 years? Are you mad? Do you think these people dont realize they’ll all be subpoenaed before Congress?
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This held up well.
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Last edited by Tyrone Slothrop; 10-11-2019 at 02:09 PM..
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10-11-2019, 02:41 PM
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#3872
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Re: Doesn’t Matter Who Wins the K Race; We’re All the Same
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Originally Posted by Icky Thump
Fact. Someone here went to a top undergrad but retard law school. At work is full retard. Like can’t do anything retard. I wondered how the fuck em got into top 6 undergrad when once, I heard em slip “When my mom worked at The U, she got family free tuit....PHONE IS RINGING!!!”
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If you went to a top 6 university and then went to law school, something's amiss. You're kind of wasting the undergrad degree and the connections it confers to take on unjustifiable lost opportunity costs and annoyance.
Or as you note, Mom worked in admissions.
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10-11-2019, 02:44 PM
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Re: Doesn’t Matter Who Wins the K Race; We’re All the Same
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Originally Posted by Tyrone Slothrop
This held up well.
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I don't think anyone expected that Trump's first act upon escaping Mueller's clutches would be to put himself right back into the crosshairs of another investigation.
But then again, it's not entirely an unexpected thing for him to do...
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10-11-2019, 02:46 PM
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#3874
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Moderasaurus Rex
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Re: Doesn’t Matter Who Wins the K Race; We’re All the Same
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Originally Posted by sebastian_dangerfield
I don't think anyone expected that Trump's first act upon escaping Mueller's clutches would be to put himself right back into the crosshairs of another investigation.
But then again, it's not entirely an unexpected thing for him to do...
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Uh, hello? Trump betrayed the Kurds this week just to show that he can do whatever the fuck he wants.
And if he took a lesson from L'Affaire Mueller, surely it was that with an Attorney General who won't recuse, he has no need to fear federal law enforcement investigations.
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Last edited by Tyrone Slothrop; 10-11-2019 at 02:51 PM..
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10-11-2019, 03:21 PM
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Re: Doesn’t Matter Who Wins the K Race; We’re All the Same
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Originally Posted by Tyrone Slothrop
Uh, hello? Trump betrayed the Kurds this week just to show that he can do whatever the fuck he wants.
And if he took a lesson from L'Affaire Mueller, surely it was that with an Attorney General who won't recuse, he has no need to fear federal law enforcement investigations.
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Let’s be clear, though, 45 betrayed the Kurds because Erdogan and Putin wanted him too. Is it out of his bizarre affinity for strongman or is there more going (some of which we don’t know about in part because Manafort chose to go to jail instead of cooperate)? |
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10-11-2019, 03:38 PM
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Re: Doesn’t Matter Who Wins the K Race; We’re All the Same
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Originally Posted by Adder
Let’s be clear, though, 45 betrayed the Kurds because Erdogan and Putin wanted him too. Is it out of his bizarre affinity for strongman or is there more going (some of which we don’t know about in part because Manafort chose to go to jail instead of cooperate)?
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Or because he got tired of national security professionals telling him it was a bad idea, at the same time that national security professionals are screwing him by creating Ukrainian problems for him, and so he acted out.
As with trying to explain the results of the 2016 election, it's overdetermined.
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10-11-2019, 04:22 PM
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Moderasaurus Rex
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Re: Doesn’t Matter Who Wins the K Race; We’re All the Same
Can't be sure that there's any connection between Barr's visit with Murdoch, and Shep Smith's departure from Fox News, but the lack of transparency certainly leaves a bad look for the Fox.
Also, what Rick Wilson says.
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Last edited by Tyrone Slothrop; 10-11-2019 at 04:48 PM..
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10-11-2019, 05:25 PM
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Re: Doesn’t Matter Who Wins the K Race; We’re All the Same
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Originally Posted by sebastian_dangerfield
I don't think anyone expected that Trump's first act upon escaping Mueller's clutches would be to put himself right back into the crosshairs of another investigation.
But then again, it's not entirely an unexpected thing for him to do...
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If nobody expected it, how was it not unexpected? The weak passive voice of your second sentence does not save it from irreconcilability with the first. This is just another example of poor writing completely failing to distract from unpersuasive excuses that are being made in order to justify yet another bloviation proven false.
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10-11-2019, 05:34 PM
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Re: Doesn’t Matter Who Wins the K Race; We’re All the Same
Speaking of the law, in what sense is Giuliani acting as Trump's attorney? Does he ever give Trump legal advice, or is he a fixer with a legally cognizable excuse to keep secrets?
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10-11-2019, 05:55 PM
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Re: Doesn’t Matter Who Wins the K Race; We’re All the Same
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Originally Posted by Tyrone Slothrop
Speaking of the law, in what sense is Giuliani acting as Trump's attorney? Does he ever give Trump legal advice, or is he a fixer with a legally cognizable excuse to keep secrets?
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Ever hear of Tom Hagen?
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10-11-2019, 06:01 PM
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Random Syndicate (admin)
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Re: Doesn’t Matter Who Wins the K Race; We’re All the Same
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Originally Posted by Tyrone Slothrop
Speaking of the law, in what sense is Giuliani acting as Trump's attorney? Does he ever give Trump legal advice, or is he a fixer with a legally cognizable excuse to keep secrets?
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It's not entirely clear if he is Trump's lawyer.
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10-11-2019, 06:12 PM
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Moderasaurus Rex
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Re: Doesn’t Matter Who Wins the K Race; We’re All the Same
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Originally Posted by Replaced_Texan
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He clearly has been working for Trump, but as his lawyer?
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10-11-2019, 06:21 PM
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Random Syndicate (admin)
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Re: Doesn’t Matter Who Wins the K Race; We’re All the Same
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Originally Posted by Tyrone Slothrop
He clearly has been working for Trump, but as his lawyer?
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Somewhere in the text chain, she asked him about an engagement letter. He didn't answer the question but swears that he's Trump's lawyer.
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"In the olden days before the internet, you'd take this sort of person for a ride out into the woods and shoot them, as Darwin intended, before he could spawn."--Will the Vampire People Leave the Lobby? pg 79
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10-11-2019, 06:41 PM
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Moderasaurus Rex
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Re: Doesn’t Matter Who Wins the K Race; We’re All the Same
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Originally Posted by Replaced_Texan
Somewhere in the text chain, she asked him about an engagement letter. He didn't answer the question but swears that he's Trump's lawyer.
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Well, of course he does, because he wants to be able to assert the attorney-client privilege, and because it makes him sound closer and more reputable than just some other dude. In principle, a lawyer can sometimes act on Trump's behalf.
I'm just not clear why that status is necessary for anything that he's been doing.
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“It was fortunate that so few men acted according to moral principle, because it was so easy to get principles wrong, and a determined person acting on mistaken principles could really do some damage." - Larissa MacFarquhar
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10-11-2019, 11:41 PM
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Re: Doesn’t Matter Who Wins the K Race; We’re All the Same
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Originally Posted by Tyrone Slothrop
Well, of course he does, because he wants to be able to assert the attorney-client privilege, and because it makes him sound closer and more reputable than just some other dude. In principle, a lawyer can sometimes act on Trump's behalf.
I'm just not clear why that status is necessary for anything that he's been doing.
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This isn’t garden variety man-splaining, cuz it is how you talk to men too. Let’s call it Ty-splaining?
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